and won’t admit to any wrongdoing.
“Allegedly” my ass! The man suffered a heart attack and fell off his bicycle! How else could he have had “suffered five broken ribs, a broken toe and damaged his kidney as a result of the accident” if the dimwit driver didn’t do it?
Mr. Krieble is expected to make a full recovery, despite the ambulance driver’s negligence.
How would he get his ribs and kidney damaged by having his leg run over? Last I checked the leg bone wasn’t connected to the rib bone.
My mistake, the linked report didn’t give the full story. It mentions that the defibrillator was hit by the ambulance but not where it went. Get the picture?
This is a horrible story, but this comment made me laugh. The poor guy sounds like a total curmudgeon (and there’s nothing wrong with that)–he’s probably tough as nails too. Riding his bike at 75, and expected to make a full recovery?
I can’t believe that the ambulance drivers didn’t tell anyone. Assholes!
What a bizarre story. How could the ambulance driver think his carelessness would go unnoticed? Behold the power of denial.
I don’t understand why “State police said Tuesday that they are considering charges” – what’s to consider? Isn’t it a given that running someone over and not saying anything about it is against the law?
WTF were they doing driving that close to the freaking patient? I just finished an EMT training course a few weeks ago, and you always, always, always assume a danger zone of at least 50 feet. I realize that stuff doesn’t always happen in the field like it does in the book, but common sense ought to tell you not to park your rig within 10 feet of where people are working on a patient. Jesus Christ on a pogo stick.
I’m an EMT and have been for two years, and there’s no way that I or anyone else on our service would drive the rig that close to a patient. Unfortunately, there are some stupid people out there who make the rest of us look bad, and I am glad that gentleman wasn’t hurt any more serious than he was. And there’s no way, in my professional opinion, that his injuries were consistent with falling of a bike from a heart attack.
One thing that did bug me about the article was the author referring to the paramedic as an “ambulance driver.” Ambulance drivers of old were just that; they drove but had no medical skills. Today, in most services, nearly everyone on the crew is at least an EMT (paramedics are the next step up) and everyone drives. Very few ambulance crew members drive nowadays and don’t have at least some medical training. Okay, I’m done with my little nit picking. =D
Gotcha.
In the American justice system we have a concept called “presumption of innocence.” Even when it is blatently obvious that someone has committed a crime or act of negligence, we assume he is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law by due process. The media respects this concept, and they should.
I think “accused of” would have been better than “allegedly” in this case. There’s nothing alleged about those injuries and it’s pretty obious how they got there, the question is if the driver can be held legally responsible or not.